Comment by compsciphd
2 days ago
a former company I was at, didn't allow outbound ssh (which I liked to enable me to vnc into boxes at home). I installed installed a webvnc application on my home machine (protected by https / password) and was able to access it without an issue.
When I left the company they went through my outbound email and were like "why did you forward an email you got out of the company". That e-mail was a friend visiting and me getting sent their picture from the lobby telling me that I had a visitor (so figured it be cute to share the image with them). I was amused that they only bothered to ask me as I was leaving, not when it actually occurred.
I used to host an SSH server at home at port 443, for the same reason! The sysadmin of my employer was so strict that 'solutions' like this were the way of the least resistance. Security gets worse when policies get stricter.